Wall-paper roll



oca 6,1925.

H. A. FAUTE'UX 'WALL .PAPER ROLL 'Filed sept. s, 1924 Patented Oct. 6, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALL-PAPER ROLL.

Application filed September 8, 1924. Serial No. 736,647.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ANDREW FAUTEUX, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of the city of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tall-Paper Rolls, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wall paper rolls, and more particularly to the means for attaching selvages to rolls, and the objects of the invention are to provide a paper roll with selvages for protecting the roll and that can be readily rcmoved withoutcutting or any other means that would tend to interfere with the roll itw self or the pattern thereon.

In other words, the objects of the invention are to provide protection for paper rolls that will fulfill all the requirements of permanent 'selvages and which can be quickly and eHiciently removed by simply applying moisture to the back of the selvages.

I attain these objects by almost completely severing with a cutting instrument or the like the selvages from the roll, leaving them attached to the roll by the thinnest of means and then applying on the back of the selvages and the roll, at the point where the former are almost severed from the roll, adhesive in the form of a coating adapted to dry quickly. When the paper is in the roll the selvages are securely held by the dried adhesive as well as by the uncut portion forming the connection with the paper roll. On the paper being unrolled, moisture is applied to the adhesive and the selvages drop o practically automatically or with the least possible pull.

Referring now to the drawings in which like characters of reference indicate `corresponding parts in each figure,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wall paper roll with my improved selvage, partly unrolled.

Figure 2 is a of the paper.

Figure 3 is a similar View of the underside.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the roll of paper when rolled.

Figure 5 is a sectional detail showing the plan view of the upper side selvage almost completely severed from the roll proper.

In the drawings:

A designates a paper roll provided with the usual selvage on each side 10 and 11. In the manufacture of the roll cutting means are provided to almost sever the selvages 10 and 11 from the roll proper 12, as indicated more particularly in Figure 5, leaving the thinnest possible connecting portion 13 between the selvages and the roll proper. To the back of this almost-cut-through line is applied a very thin coating of adhesive 14 adapted to dry quickly so that the paper may be rolled without any possibility of the adhesive sticking. Then, on the paper being unrolled, as above described, a little moisture is applied to the adhesive, and the selvages almost drop off, they are so easily removed. At the same time, on the edges of the paper roll remaining is a certain amount of4 adhesive which assists materially in the hanging of the paper.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within the scope of the claims, constructed without depart-ing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

I/Vhat I claim as my invention is:

1. A roll of paper of the character described having selvages almost but not completely severed therefrom and provided with a light coating of adhesive on the back adapted to dry quickly and, when moistened, to permit the separation of the selvages completely from the roll.

2. The combination with a roll of paper of selvages almost but not completely severed from the roll and having on the back a coating of suitable material adapted, when dry, to re-enforce the uncut connection between the selvages and the roll, and when moistened to ermit the separation of the selvages comp etely from the roll.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY ANDREW FAUTEUX. 

